Search Results for: trichotillomania

Loss of hair attributable either to the effects of inflammatory cells on follicles or to physiological or mechanical factors in which inflammatory cells play no role. Although the scalp is the site most often affected, any region of the skin that be…

…hair, especially the eyelashes, when stressed; a diagnosis of trichotillomania is highly likely Reassurance is given; the hair growth is likely fully reversible; a long discussion regarding strategies to modify hair-pulling triggered by stressors; pa…

Trichotillomania Presentation stereotypical Age and sex Young girls usually Distribution of lesions Scalp in patchy asymmetrical fashion Individual lesions Patchy hair loss with shafts of different lengths, many of them very short Course For as long…

Loss of hair attributable either to the effects of inflammatory cells on follicles or to physiological or mechanical factors in which inflammatory cells play no role. Although the scalp is the site most often affected, any region of the skin that be…

Loss of hair attributable either to the effects of inflammatory cells on follicles or to physiological or mechanical factors in which inflammatory cells play no role. Although the scalp is the site most often affected, any region of the skin that be…

Loss of hair attributable either to the effects of inflammatory cells on follicles or to physiological or mechanical factors in which inflammatory cells play no role. Although the scalp is the site most often affected, any region of the skin that be…

…in a pleated hair shaft (trichomalacia) in an infundibulum = Trichotillomania Alterations in the hair pictured are known colloquially as trichomalacia, but the changes do not result from softening of hair, but rather from twisting a shaft back and…

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